How is Interior Design part of Architectural Studies?
Interior Design is an emphasis area leading to the H.E.S. degree within the Department of Architectural Studies.

MISSION
The Department’s mission is to educate future design practitioners, advance research of the built environment, and disseminate knowledge of architectural studies to improve quality of life for people.

PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of the Department of Architectural Studies embraces the synergy created between architecture and interior design. Having a symbiotic relationship, both fields explore the design process and its final products. Promoting the meaning and value of physical settings and responding to the human condition, the program investigates the interaction between people and their surroundings to create a more beautiful and sustainable world. The program encourages an interdisciplinary, scholarly climate celebrating aesthetic values and the human sciences.

The department has strengths in:

Environment and behavior design focusing on physical settings responsive to the culture, income, life span, and diversity of people. Design communication with digital media as an integral part of the design process, focusing on graphic ideation and application of computer technology.

Graduate programs	offer emphases in environment and behavior studies and design with digital media leading to the MA, MS and Ph.D. degrees.
Undergraduate programs		include the Interior Design emphasis and the pre-professional Architectural Studies emphasis.